Trying to understand the 'using' statement better

Question

I have read a couple of articles about the using statement to try and understand when it should be used. It sound like most people reckon it should be used as much as possib

Answer 1

IMHO, what you need to ask yourself is: What are the alternatives? Try/finally blocks? Are they more readable? More maintainable? In almost all cases, the answer is going to be "no".

So use using. It's the closest thing C# has to C++'s RAII pattern and it's all good :-)